Colony
@cultureshockart.bsky.social
Arts writer. Seriously unserious.
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I just added SO many books to my list! Hats off to @miriamgershow.bsky.social and all the reviewers and @literaryhub.bsky.social for putting together this incredibly vital, necessary, and good guide to the indies this year. Please do read! lithub.com/100-notable-...
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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December 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I just added SO many books to my list! Hats off to @miriamgershow.bsky.social and all the reviewers and @literaryhub.bsky.social for putting together this incredibly vital, necessary, and good guide to the indies this year. Please do read! lithub.com/100-notable-...
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"Eligible to New York City-based artists with children under the age of three, awardees will receive a grant for $25,000 to be used for childcare expenses with the provider of their choice." www.artistsandmothers.org/grant - Applications due by Jan 2.
Grant — Artists and Mothers
www.artistsandmothers.org
December 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"Eligible to New York City-based artists with children under the age of three, awardees will receive a grant for $25,000 to be used for childcare expenses with the provider of their choice." www.artistsandmothers.org/grant - Applications due by Jan 2.
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Conservativism is a rejection of imagination. We’re in a time where the act of imagining a better world is a threat to society.
How Did We Get Here?
We’re in a time where the act of imagining a better world is considered a threat to society.
hyperallergic.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Conservativism is a rejection of imagination. We’re in a time where the act of imagining a better world is a threat to society.
A little heavy handed with the Gatorade product placement on Stranger Things.
November 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM
A little heavy handed with the Gatorade product placement on Stranger Things.
"How old am I? I’m tunic years old."
Much like death, Jesus, or one of those square buzzy things they use at the Chili's hostess stand, the tunic knows when your time has come. And baby, your time will come.
The tunic comes for all.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
The tunic comes for all.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
I’m Wearing Tunics Now
This is an excerpt from the author’s funny new collection, which you can buy here. - - -You’ve probably all noticed that I recently switched up my ...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"How old am I? I’m tunic years old."
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I don’t think this is chess. I think this is as straight forward as it looks.
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I don’t think this is chess. I think this is as straight forward as it looks.
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'You’re probably thinking, screw you, my doctor would tell me if something was really wrong, or else they wouldn’t have sent these. But do you know that for sure? Because there sure are a lot of numbers here and a lot of arrows up and down."
I’m Your Uploaded Bloodwork Results, and No, I Will Not Explain Myself to You
I’ve finally arrived. That’s right, it’s me, your bloodwork results, in your inbox three days after that chatty nurse couldn’t find your vein and l...
buff.ly
November 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
'You’re probably thinking, screw you, my doctor would tell me if something was really wrong, or else they wouldn’t have sent these. But do you know that for sure? Because there sure are a lot of numbers here and a lot of arrows up and down."
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This photo encapsulates Trump better than the combined word count of every article ever written about him.
November 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This photo encapsulates Trump better than the combined word count of every article ever written about him.
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In this week's Art Insider for @kcrw.com I write about how Los Angeles is a punk zine but the Hammer's biennial feels more like a well-mannered faculty cocktail.
email.kcrw.com/hammer-museu...
email.kcrw.com/hammer-museu...
October 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
In this week's Art Insider for @kcrw.com I write about how Los Angeles is a punk zine but the Hammer's biennial feels more like a well-mannered faculty cocktail.
email.kcrw.com/hammer-museu...
email.kcrw.com/hammer-museu...
The sandbagging and delusion.
“Washington, DC, was the crime capital of America; after 12 days, it’s a totally safe city…” - Trump says at the UN General Assembly
September 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The sandbagging and delusion.
Reads headline:
Five?
Five?
September 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Reads headline:
Five?
Five?
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up now online, and in print tomorrow, a beautiful piece by @cultureshockart.bsky.social in @indyweek.bsky.social reflecting on two local exhibitions that tie together memory, home, kinship, and meals through photographs and multimedia work.
Photographic Reflections On Memory, Food, and Home In Two Tender Local Exhibitions
"Potlucks and Portraits" from Jamaica Gilmer and "(biān) / (bǐ àn)" from huiyin zhou and Laura Dudu both run through the end of September.
indyweek.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
up now online, and in print tomorrow, a beautiful piece by @cultureshockart.bsky.social in @indyweek.bsky.social reflecting on two local exhibitions that tie together memory, home, kinship, and meals through photographs and multimedia work.
His ability to bring the past into the present with such clarity and a clear, actionable vision for the future is impressive. This campaign is a master class.
On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city.
This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.
This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.
September 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
His ability to bring the past into the present with such clarity and a clear, actionable vision for the future is impressive. This campaign is a master class.
Secretary Uncooked Hamburger is perfect. He's about as unhinged as that hamburger meat scene in Better Off Dead.
September 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Secretary Uncooked Hamburger is perfect. He's about as unhinged as that hamburger meat scene in Better Off Dead.
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Words are magic
September 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Words are magic
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Harriet Jacobs' slave narrative is less discussed than others in part because it focuses on this aspect of slavery.
August 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Harriet Jacobs' slave narrative is less discussed than others in part because it focuses on this aspect of slavery.
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The people who can get us through this are not going to be choir boys and girls!
August 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The people who can get us through this are not going to be choir boys and girls!
I have never been a fan of this Met logo, so for them to partner with...*checks notes* California based, surfer brand Pacific Sunwear (PacSun), suggests they still in a branding identity crisis.
August 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I have never been a fan of this Met logo, so for them to partner with...*checks notes* California based, surfer brand Pacific Sunwear (PacSun), suggests they still in a branding identity crisis.
The audacity. Byron, wyd?
July 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The audacity. Byron, wyd?
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America has run out of shame
July 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
America has run out of shame
Guys, I promise you Beetlejuice won't appear if y'all bring TCN up a third time this week. Stop this.
July 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Guys, I promise you Beetlejuice won't appear if y'all bring TCN up a third time this week. Stop this.
@stillnaima.bsky.social are you still collecting these, because this one made me fall off the couch.
July 25, 2025 at 2:17 AM
@stillnaima.bsky.social are you still collecting these, because this one made me fall off the couch.
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Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return
July 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.